Since the beginning of the Arab-Israeli conflict there have been countless human rights violations committed by both sides, but most of the violations were committed by Israel against the Palestinians . Looking at the conflict, one might believe that each attack was characterized by a violation of human rights, but in order to correctly determine what the human rights violations are, it is necessary to know the history of human rights and how they are protected. The idea of ​​human rights began with a man named Henri Dunant, who was a merchant present during the Battle of Solferino in Italy. Watching this battle from afar, Henri was disturbed by the huge amount of dead and wounded soldiers left untreated. He couldn't stand by and watch, so he helped many of the wounded soldiers. From this experience he wrote The Memory of Solferino, which became the basis for the International Committee of the Red Cross and ultimately became the basis of human rights. The next time human rights were addressed in a very significant way was after all the atrocities committed by the Nazis during the Holocaust in World War II. These atrocities led to the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly. This declaration includes 30 articles setting out the rights that all human beings are entitled to on a global scale. Some of the major articles that address some of the violations occurring in the Arab-Israeli conflict include: Article 3, right to life, liberty and security of the person; Article 5, no torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; and Article 9, not subject to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile. Since these articles were... half of the document... es/peace/laureates/1901/dunant-bio.html (accessed December 5, 2011).Schneider, Scott. “What the Geneva Protocols Really Say.” StrategyWorld.com. http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles2003/20031128.asp (accessed 8 December 2011). “The Poisonous Myth of Israeli Apartheid.” National post. www.nationalpost.com (accessed December 7, 2011). United Nations. “The importance of preventing conflicts through development, underlined democracy.” United Nations. http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2006/sc8710.doc.htm. (accessed 5 December 2011). United Nations. E/CN.4/RES/S-5/1. (October 19, 2000). United Nations News Center. UN mission finds evidence of war crimes committed by both sides in Gaza conflict. “War, peace”. Support Israel. http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageNavigator/sfi_about_war_terrorism (accessed 5 December 2011).Williams. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1981.